Harry Partch 30 Years of Lyrical and Dramatic Music Gate 5 Records Issue A orig.

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You are bidding on a vinyl record/lp: Harry Partch: 30 Years of Lyrical and Dramatic Music. Gate 5 Records, Issue A, original pressing

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Poems By Li Po

A1a     A Midnight Farewell 

A1b     Before The Cask Of Wine     

A1c     An Encounter In The Field    

A1d     On Hearing The Flute At Lo-cheng   

A1e     The Intruder   

A1f      I Am A Peach Tree    

A2       Windsong

Performer – Harry Partch

Two Studies On Ancient Greek Scales

B1a      The Five-Tone Scale Of Olympos

Percussion [Bass Marimba] – Ben Johnston

Strings [Harmonic Canon] – Harry Partch

B1b     The Seven-Tone Enharmonic Scale

Percussion [Bass Marimba] – Ben Johnston

Strings [Harmonic Canon] – Harry Partch

Intrusions

B2a      The Rose

Lyrics By [Poems By] – Ella Young

B2b     The Crane      

B2c      The Wind

Lyrics By [Poem] – Ella Young

B2d     The Waterfall

Lyrics By [Poem] – Ella Young

B2e      Vanity

Lyrics By [Poem] – Giuseppe Ungaretti

B3       Cloud Chamber Music

Ensemble – Ben Johnston, Betty Johnston, Donald Pippin, Harry Partch

B4       Bless This Home

Conductor – John Garvey

Lyre [Kithara], Strings [Harmonic Canon] – Danlee Mitchell

Lyrics By [Poem By], Oboe – Vincenzo Prockelo

Percussion [Mazda Marimba] – Joseph Varhula

Voice [Intoning Voice], Viola [Adapted Viola] – Harry Partch

B5       By The Rivers Of Babylon (137th Psalm)

Conductor – John Garvey

Lyre [Kithara] – Lyndel Davis

Organ [Chromelodeon] – Evelyn Garvey

Viola [Adapted Viola] – Harry Partch

Voice – Nina Cutler

Credits

Composed By – Harry Partch

Lyrics By [Poem By] – Li Po* (tracks: A1a to A1f)

Performer [Intrumentalist] – Ben Johnston (tracks: B2a to B2e), Betty Johnston (tracks: B2a to B2e)

Recorded By – W. E. Gilson* (tracks: A1a to A1f)

Voice [Intoning Voice] – William Wendlandt (tracks: A1a to A1f)

Voice [Intoning Voice], Performer [Intrumentalist] – Harry Partch (tracks: B2a to B2e)

Voice [Intoning Voice], Viola [Adapted Viola] – Harry Partch (tracks: A1a to A1f)

Notes

Poems By Li Po, composed 1931-1933, as recorded in 1947. From The Works Of Li Po, the Chinese poet, done into English verse by Shigeyoshi Obata. Copyright, 1922.

Windsong, composed 1958. This is an excerpted version of the soundtrack for the film Windsong, a modern rendering of the ancient myth of Daphne and Apollo. Ten instruments are used, and Partch plays nearly all the parts. The film was produced by Madeline Tourtelot.

Two Studies On Ancient Greek Scales, composed 1946, recorded in 1950.

Intrusions, composed 1949-1950, recorded in 1950. The poems by Ella Young are from Marzilian And Other Poems, 1938. The Crane is from Japanese Poetry, the 'Uta' by Arthur Waley, 1919. Vanity is from Circle magazine, Summer 1948.

Cloud-Chamber Music, composed 1950. The tune toward the end is by the Zuni Indians of New Mexico.

Bless This Home, composed 1960, Recorded in 1961, University of Illinois. Poem by Vicenzo Pockelo, written for Gary and Suzi Everett.

By The Rivers of Babylon, composed 1931.